Here's a rough layout sketch for the final two page spread in the Prologue:

I was still trying to make the comic autobiographical at this point, so I added the metafictional cartoonist painting the music balloons.

When I made the inked version for the first issue (with the purple cover), I changed the layout of the middle tier of panels to make it more symmetrical. I like how the "camera" pulls in and then back out to show Tom in his mask totally wrapped up in playing guitar.

For the final version found in the second first issue (say that ten times fast) I digitally removed the cartoonist figure at the bottom:

Originally, I planned to map out every single record that was meaningful to me in the prologue. Then I realized that I would have to either draw tiny little facsimiles of each album cover or make up a symbol for each one and that just seemed too daunting. I also wanted to show how learning to play guitar gave me a greater appreciation for wider range of music.

For the next sketch, I settled on a strip across the top of tracks that I tried to learn to play interspersed with the play along CD from the Mel Bay How to Play Guitar book. You can see at the bottom I was still going for the autobio/metafictional angle with the little cartoon Grant thinking as he drew the comic.

If you recall from last week, I used to scribble out my layouts on scratch paper. This nearly indecipherable image above is drawn on lined notebook paper.

Eventually, I made a tighter sketch which is posted below.

If you look closely, you can see a check mark in the bottom left hand corner of the sketch. I like to put those on my thumbnails when I've finished drawing the final page. Sometimes I even add the dates that I penciled and inked the final page. (I rarely pencil and ink a page on the same day.)